MRS NORA ARMAH vs. DR. PETER ARMAH [2017]DLHC8729

Date	2017-06-07
Suit No.	SUIT NO. C1/19/08
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC8729

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI

SOLOMON OPPONG-TWUMASI FOR PETITIONER

NANA ADJOA KOOMSON FOR RESPONDENT

[2017]DLHC8729
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MRS NORA ARMAH<o:p></o:p>(PETITIONER)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DR. PETER ARMAH<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>SOLOMON
OPPONG-TWUMASI FOR PETITIONER<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>I
am often not enthused about decreeing divorce between marriage couples because
of the sociological effects divorce has on the children from such marriages.&nbsp; Again, I am often reminded by God’s decree in
Malachi 2: 15-16, where he said “… do not break faith with the wife of your
youth.&nbsp; I hate divorce says the Lord God
of Israel.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Our
Lord Jesus Christ also spoke against divorce when he said in Matthew 19: 5-6 as
follows: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united
to his wife and the two will become one flesh.&nbsp;
So they are no longer two but one.&nbsp;
Therefore, what God has put together let no man put asunder.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>However,
it is trite that, no one can compel parties to continue to marry.&nbsp; Thus, it appears that, if the parties
themselves decide to seek divorce contrary to the biblical position if they are
Christians, then the court will have to give her blessing to it.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Indeed
Lord Denning in his Book Landmarks in the Law (Butter Worths1954) at page 176
wrote on attitude of the British people to divorce as follows;<o:p></o:p>“There is no longer any binding knot
for marriage.&nbsp; There is only a loose
piece of string which the parties can untie at will.&nbsp; Divorce is not a stigma.&nbsp; It has become respectable.&nbsp; One parent families abound”.<o:p></o:p>See:
Mensah V Mensah [2012] 1 SCGLR 391.
However, I am of the humble view that, before the instant suit came to court,
both parties would have expressed their love for each other in so many times
and in different ways.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Let
me then posit what in my view was been used as expression of love between the
parties in this suit.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
roman poet virgil in his Eclogues stated that “Omnia Vincit Amor” meaning that love conquers all things.&nbsp; Alas the empirical evidence from divorce
litigation belies this assertion.&nbsp; It is
one of the responsibilities of the Court to sort out, the bad consequences of
love stories that have come up.&nbsp; This
case falls into this category of love stories gone sour.<o:p></o:p>